wildlife refuges

While visiting her mother's bonobo sanctuary in Congo, Sophie becomes caught up in a violent revolution taking place in the country. Forced to flee into the jungle with an infant bonobo, she must find a way to stay alive amidst the danger surrounding her.

Vinnie, a "crazy-happy" dog, finds a most unlikely companion when he gets lost and winds up in a nature preserve.

Vinnie, a "crazy-happy" dog, finds a most unlikely companion when visiting a nature preserve.

The difficult star of the reality television show, "Expedition Survival," disappears on location in the Florida Everglades, where they were filming animals from the wildlife refuge run by Wahoo Crane's family, and Wahoo and classmate Tuna Gordon set out to find him, but they must avoid Tuna's gun-happy father.

The difficult star of the reality television show, "Expedition Survival," disappears on location in the Florida Everglades, where they were filming animals from the wildlife refuge run by Wahoo Crane's family, and Wahoo and classmate Tuna Gordon set out to find him, but they must avoid Tuna's gun-happy father.

Discusses wildlife refuges in various parts of the world and their importance in preserving animals in their natural habitats.

In 1997 Gloria Grow started a sanctuary for chimps retired from biomedical research on her farm outside Montreal. Brimming with empathy and winning stories of Grow and her charges, "The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary" is an absorbing, big-hearted text that grapples with questions of just what man owes to the animals who are his nearest genetic relations.

William Finley and Herman Bohlman set up camp on Three Arch Rocks to study this unique habitat so they can convince lawmakers to make this the West Coast's first wildlife sanctuary.